and so the opportunity was law firm, our 3 thought documentary series on last day, hezbollah dots may 4th on dw, the it's like the 6 days all over again, people have been saying as police breakup, compass protests against is rails war in gaza and pro israel count of protest, back in the sixty's, we were told that the demonstrations against the vietnam war invasion injustice with the work of radical left advertises. so do these comparisons stand up and what is it about this conflict? that is let such a fire under these young people. i'm feel go invalid and this is the day the

they were finally attacking the something that i was kind of annoying the all these people who are not either not bad so it's also coming up tough. new abortion laws come into effect in the us state of florida today. president biden and his democrats are hoping the issue will drive vote a ton of how to invest favor in november's election. these laws are so extreme that i think it will push people to the polls and will push people to, you know,

vote and vote for choice and thought for abortion, rights and bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom. welcome to the day attends and on us the universe to campuses is rising after police arrested hundreds of pro palestinian student demonstrates as students at thousands of colleges in the us have been demonstrating against the war in gaza. ive been calling on an administrator has to divest from companies this allegedly profit from israel is war against time us. there was violence overnight. the university of california in los angeles were pro israel, demonstrates is attacked uh comp setup by pro palestinian students. they attempted to pull the battery okay to protect your account and there was scuffled between the 2 sides, police and like to move in to separate the 2 groups and to stop the rest universe. they cancel the classes on wednesday because of the vitamins in new york city. police cleared and occupied building of the rest of the $300.00 pro palestinian

protests on the campus of columbia university of an ice. bringing a day long stand off to a dramatic and fellow demonstrations of not taking their protests to outside new york police headquarters. many criticize the way office, a br office has broke off. what they said was a peaceful protest, a thing police were rough with demons. traces you met eric adams has defended the decisions that and the protest escalated by outside figure is not affiliated with the university. individuals on the campus should not have been there. there were people who are professionals and we saw evidence of training. we saw a shift in tactics that were being used. and when you start using the intelligence, the intel was able to supply, we knew was time to communicate directly with the school and say you have more than a peaceful protest on your have a certain i correspondence benjamin alvaro screw,

but who's in new york city near columbia university. welcome ben. so what's the latest on this set day after police right? of the door. a group of protest is earlier today in front of this entrance. it's quite close to the whole and it was occupied by the students and were n y, p d, new york, a police entered with a lot of law enforcement offices a late evening a yesterday. now the situation is called the big question. of course, of course, will be what will happen with the students more than $100.00 students were arrested . they were at columbia university and also another university here in new york, bringing the number of the rest to 280 to the big question will be now, it will face expansion as the university has sat and we'll, we'll continue to happen. we only got one e mail from the presidency of columbia university today saying that there is no media access to campus that has made it quite a difficult also to do a this coverage. and they also said that hamilton whole that he is the right behind

me is an active crying team by n y p b. so we're still waiting for confirmation on that side. and who is the new york man? eric adams talking about his plan. he blamed external actors and professionals for the escalation on the columbia campus. that's a good question that many also students here are asking themselves because and why p as nod release, the information of how many of those who were arrested are part of the university community and how many are not part of the university a community. and also what they said that had a chain during a press conference saying that it shows how professional these products those are. but at the end it turned out that it was just a psych lock that was used. and there was also promoted by university that many students have here. so there is a lack of information theory, even though student journalist weapon covering this over the past couple of days that this has been unfolding, have not been granted access. it only yesterday essential stuff,

and those who are living inside of campus have been able to enter. and the only response that we a god. also to ask if we will get an official statement of what would be able to talk to a spokesperson of the university was not today. so we will try again tomorrow. okay, thanks a lot. ben dw corresponded to benjamin about his group at a new york city. so well, let's take a look at the potential national significance of these protests which will invite david father, who is a professor of the bottom us history and the university of campus. thank you so much for joining us on the dime professor. let's start with the comparisons being made between these protests and those against the vietnam war back in the sixty's. i think those comparisons are valid but there's certainly a degree of similarity. uh, there's yahoo all over again. i think there's one major difference that i've been really struck by. you can think about the anti war protests in the 19 sixty's as being environmental. went on for several years. started very peacefully,

non violently. and then over several years, time escalated to more militancy. these protests have happened so fast and such as compressed matter that move from the kind of peaceful protests to some very militant actions in days, not years. so in that sense, i don't know if it's social media or just the ability of modern life, but there is a kind of urgency and quickness to these protests that's quite different than the long environmental protests of students in the 1960. and what do you think at today's students, universities that indeed the federal government might loan from those sixty's protest? or yeah, that's a question that i've been thinking a lot about and, and been talking to a lot of people about what one thing that's pretty obvious is that if you as

a university administrator, move very quickly to bring police or even worst case to bring violent police actions against demonstrators you tend to make a difficult situation worse. so administrators have to be very cautious about escalating matters because often there's a backlash. students who are not interested or just interested, suddenly become angry that their fellow students, their peers, are being treated in such a harsh way. so that's the lesson for administrators. be careful. be cautious. don't do things. you don't have to do for fear that you might escalate things worse for students. i think the other issue has to be very mindful of what's their goals . i think this happened with the anti war protest, certainly in the united states, in the 1960 and early seventy's, where students sometimes forgot that the point of the exercise was to convince others that us policy was wrong. that there had to be changes and how the united states handled its international responsibilities. here too. i sometimes worry that students in their passions are forgetting, their goal, which i gather,

would be to get their universities to divest from supporting israel in any manner whatsoever. and perhaps even more importantly, to change the opinions of americans and certainly american policy makers. so be good because there is what your tactics are and what your long term goals are. looking, i was looking at a map of the campus protests today, and they, they do seem to have very much bypass much of the middle of the country, including your own state of, of kansas. why do you think that is i, i think there's a couple fascinating reasons for it. one, the typically and maybe this is true in germany and other countries with disparate populations. the coast tend to have more liberal orientations. more progressives live in those states. those are the kids parents or the students themselves. so blue states, we call them us democratic cleaning, progressive states, california,

new york, massachusetts, etc. a washington state, portland, oregon. maybe those are the natural 1st responders to this kind of trouble. just before this interview i went outside and saw that my own campus for the 1st time as a mass protest. and there is a kind of encampment growing. so it's is, yeah, several days later here in the state of kansas. a, a traditionally conservative state. but keep here too, it's happening. so we'll see whether this spreads or if the commencement supp again, may 10th or 15th or so in. most us universities tends to dissipate students and the energy of these protests. so what do you say about this? i certainly think israel gauze of it seems to list a fire and the students didn't do you recall similar a process, for instance, about the uh, the 2 gulf was or certainly not in the do remember that there were eventually very large mass protests against us intervention in

particular, interact a millions of people, both in europe and united states taking to the streets. but those were not campus space. they were not university based protests. here i think students are trying to understand as us to way back in the vietnam war era or their own communities or their own universities complicit in what many of the student protest or c as a deal advised or immoral even policy toward israel and palestine. so here in this particular struggle, there's a campus based reasoning going on. and i don't think that was true with the golf wars per site or some of the other oppressed misadventures of us foreign policy, recent years. a you, you mentioned the, the can needed when thinking about inviting police on to campus. back in 1968, the columbia president grayson cook actually resigned a year after calling in a 1000 police officers to grow student protests against the vietnam war. amongst

other things, do you think that the current columbia president administrative fee will end up stepping down? right now, i would say no. the scale of the protests despite the international media attention to it, is relatively small, small in scale. and i don't think that the political environment is similar today. obviously, most americans still very much support israel. that's important. the united states is position supporting israel. so i don't think the presidents of it lead universities are fearing progressive with the impulses that would cause them to resign. it seems politically, it's the other direction. we recently had the presence of harvard and humorously pennsylvania resign because of conservative pressure against them. so i think the political concepts are quite different in the united states today. we were in a more conservative place maybe than we were in 1960

a fascinating analysis. and we thank you for it. professor professor david, the father from a kansas university. think unfortunately these laws are being written by people who don't really understand medical care and so they are affecting a larger swath of the population than what they're meant to be affecting. so we're seeing patients who have highly desired pregnancies that are incompatible with life that are unable to access the care they need. this isn't really going to disproportionately affect both color people last us like so. second nomics that it was the women's reproductive health specialist in florida. speaking ahead of a strict new abortion though, championed by conservative governors on desantis, which came into effect today. the most populous states in the us is not prohibiting a portion of to just 6 weeks. the time when most women wouldn't even though they were pregnant and replace as far as the previous 15 weeks back,

which had made it one of the last states in the southern us still allow procedure such a late stage. let's talk through this with dw, as washington bureau chief in this poll. welcome avis and tell us more about what today's changes were made and why though we felt well be well beyond me to florida . so this will have a significant impact on women seeking abortions. as many may not even have realized that they are pregnant at this early stage. you know, ever since a nation wide protection of abortion rights was overturned in 2022 from the u. s. supreme court, florida also as being a t x. this point for abortions in the whole region, with warner in 3 southern abortions and one and 12 nationwide happening in the states as women from other southern states travel fair for uh,

the procedure. so this law was not only affect residents of laurie, but, but also women throughout the whole south. and of course, a huge be contentious political issue and republican, the presidential candidates and full, the president goes, donald trump. i laid out his position on abortion last month, essentially saying the issue should be left to the states was asked more recently whether he was comfortable with the idea of states tracking and punishing women who seek abortionist dis, speaking to time magazine. he said it's irrelevant whether uncomfortable not. it's totally irrelevant because the states are going to make those decisions. so in his poll, how does mister trump's position squared with american public opinion? that's a difficult question to answer because public opinion is really divided on this issue was there is indeed a widespread opposition to the supreme court ruling that limited

a nation wide protection of abortion rights, opinions on federal action to protect the portion that says, really where we throughout this huge country with these many very diverse states, so roughly half of us adults believe federal politicians should work to enshrine abortion to excess nationally. a 3rd to 7 or so percent think it should be less to states just exactly what donald trump was saying there. i mean, well, president biased and i've, he's, democrats are hoping, based the issue, the abortion issue will boost to not doing what's expected to be a close election. come november. how important is this folder the you know, big problem for both the current president and the former president is to really marty rating of voters to participate in the elections in november as neither of them has been able to energize the voter base at least as for now,

so that is one reason why the abortion issue is so important for president biden, and why he and also his mice presidents, camelot harris, are come painting so much on that. they hoped that it will drive board to turn out in the upcoming election. and they also believe that the reproductive rights issue, along with the constitutional amendment on the ballot to qualify abortion protections in florida, will make the stage more competitive, especially since it was one by trump, in both 201682020. so the sunshine state florida could actually once again play a corporate role in deciding the outcome of the next presidential election. and it is actually really possible that this abortion band we are talking about here tonight might ultimately help secure the vital us for job items. okay,

thanks back to interstate a boost washington bureau chief in his paul the academy of what authors is say at least 169 people have been killed, more than a 190000 displaced by catastrophic flooding. that's the original ryans that hit the country this year. having cooled the most intense in recent memory, the deputies, phoenix spring. i spoke to some people who been forced to leave their homes and many still don't know what has happened to them. afterwards. shots had was what as raging efforts to find the remaining forties as the loan going a shelter flow decided less on the victim spaces. many i trying to come to times with a tragedy that has heat samples, genius, family, easy morning, date on the 4th for their lives. and 6 of i buy that 3 year old toddler was credited to read by the flags to what i searched for him. every week but couldn't

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anything was happening or that the war since we're coming towards us is no cutting out on the boat. julie is not alone. can you n g last his business to the flags, his machinery made useless. his collar should be covered in mud and direct to imagine what it means. and a lot of things have been destroyed in my business. and not that i was storing some items for drivers. it all got carried away. i might be the fletch broken through one side of the building up on the came out, the other hand carried away. everything that i had in there was one of my employees almost got swept away. but the security guard was able to save him from being taken by the floods, i guess could talk with them before the such and retrieve what efforts are still going on. nobody knows how much time it will take to clear the debris. family members are hoping they can get to locate their loved ones and have a chance to buy them. can use president william photo visited the area stated by the flags. he promised the government will attribute homes settled the homeless and

get that children back into school. but he came with a wanting to people living in areas by that about the flooding them up being that has been done on board fred daly, areas that are prone to run slides and a and flooding. we are asking every can in such areas to leave because the forecast is that green is going to continue and the likelihood of flooding and people losing lives is re and therefore we must take pre emptive auction. the president also asked about the police remained hopefully, even in the middle of the crisis once that's possible. and it's julie hope things to that thought of finding her missing baby. 20 years ago. it's a day 10 central. i'm east european countries join the european union. one of those countries was poland to mount vacationing polish,

and german foreign ministers of that match to be created and photographed that was taken in 2004. the picture shows the opening of a boarded bridge between germany in poland, 5 a previous s as a form of foreign ministers of the 2 countries. the loss been to ushered in changes from the members, including the dropping of customs controls on goods. the definitely business report to cobb hot and bro looks at one company that's made a success out of the expansion. we're heading to an e. u family get to get a boat in europe. express number for the train departs from the german town of town, passing through poland and the czech republic at the so called tri boat, a point where the 3 e u countries meet. for 20 years ago, 10 countries joined the you and of course those came to celebrate. it's going to exist the items, i'm glad the you exists and then we can cross the border without problems. i worked

in germany, our family lives in to check with populate. so child goes to school in germany here to triple us, but it will be as a permission to tell me the us and really experience our daughter's funding check gets to know another culture. and we are discovering what's together with her, which i find very exciting. spun business also received a boost from the use east and expansion. companies like hood us and northern germany. the family business produces metal pots for the aircraft and car industries. company boss kapco does worked with trek from mesa to create a joint venture there and more than 20 years ago. this was d. everything d u has brought is an advantage. many borders that have disappeared. all the customs regulations that have disappeared. people can travel. our apprentices often do internships abroad in the you, dean research, every way we benefit from each other without the you from my point of view,

nothing would work anymore. the german company prides itself on custom manufacturing, marketing and research. here, for example, and a software is being developed in collaboration with the university, which will be put to work at the company's check factory. there's a constant exchange of technical know how and the employees between the sites engineer last short says already worked at the check site, a desire to do the options as a default. they were already very up to speed. you can communicate with them directly on a technical level that fits very well. we're at the factory in the czech republic, south east of prague, here, large quantities of manufactured for the automotive industry throughout the u. the advantage low energy costs and still lower wages than in germany. the division of labor between the sites makes the operation internationally competitive. the plot manager has been here from the start. the business has always been on the

economically banks in part to you membership for him. the crowning achievement would be to replace the check crown with the euro. the start of the government, all of those. and i would personally like to see the euro, and it would be a big advantage for the company, because then we wouldn't have to always convert currencies, exchange rates, or big risk, so many on to pronounce hope for better market access with the euro. mazda population still do use the e. u currency with skepticism and equalization, of living conditions between the east and the west has not yet fully been achieved . but the ones pulled neighbors from the east quickly catching up. and that is today more of course uh on the social media at dw news and slice just headlines you're looking for. there's always that dw dot com or the d w up until the day tomorrow, have a good day. good. by the,

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